How old are the formations at Sudwala Caves? South African born geologist, Dr Robyn Pickering, is really fascinated by this question and has been working with the staff and management of Sudwala Caves since last 2010 to try and discover the age of the wonderful formations.

NAME: Karst activity (with contributions from A.H. Cooper, A.R. Farrant and A.N. Palmer. Revised January 2007) BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Karst is a type of landscape found on carbonate rocks (limestone, dolomite, marble) or evaporites (gypsum, anhydrite, rock salt) and is typified by a suite of landforms including a wide range of closed surface …

Chauvet Cave in the valley of the Ardèche River in France is filled with paintings, engravings and drawings created more than 30 000 years ago, of cave lions, mammoths, rhinos, bison, cave bears and horses. It contains the earliest known cave paintings, as well as other evidence of Upper Paleolithic life. It is situated on a limestone cliff above …

Modern limestone caves often show evidence of ongoing solution - the groundwater leaving a cave often has a higher concentration of calcium and bicarbonate ions than the water entering the cave. 1 Dripstone deposits on the interior of caves prove that solution occurs above the cave.; The shapes of bedrock structures in limestone caves often resemble …

Yes, global warming is real and most of the recent increases in temperature are directly the result of human actions. However, a number of predictions publicized in the media present unrealistic scenarios of doom and gloom.